The Time of Troubles

By Scott David Gray and Sharon Tripp.
ATTENTION: This page is NOT current or complete! The game is a work
in progress!

The Time of Troubles is a Live Action Role Playing (LARP) game. Each
player in the game is given a character to portray. Each character has
her/his own goals and personality. In this game there are no winners or
losers. Though some characters may have 'goals', actual success at
attaining the goals is no reflection on the player's
ability. (For example, an actor is playing Shakespeare's Hamlet rather
poorly if by the end of his performance the tragic prince is still
alive....)
Do you have what it takes to survive as a Russian peasant in the early
17th century? Tsar Ivan IV (aka Ivan Grozny -- Ivan the Terrible) died in
1584, four years after killing his eldest son in a fit of anger. The
nation is divided by a civil war, stemming from several competing claims
to the Russian crown. invasions by the Polish (who want to bring the
Eastern Orthodox church under the control of the Roman Catholic Pope), and
the Swedes (who want to control trade routes along the Baltic coast). Food
shortages and heavy taxes (instituted by two rival governments) have moved
the peasantry to revolt against the nobility in many parts of the country.
Can things get any worse for the peasants in this small villiage?

No special knowledge of history is necessary to play in this game.
Sufficient background information will be given to players.

The Time of Troubles is not presently scheduled to run.
If you know that you want to play, you must:

Fill out a casting questionnaire so we know
what role to give you. You will receive a copy of your character via
email, which you should read over until you feel comfortable with the
role.

Once you are signed up (if not before) you will want to review the
following files, and print them out to take with you to the game (note
that this list is not complete, and these files are not in final form yet
-- you will want to hold off on printing them out):